New caching functionality in Helicon Ape 1.2.0.21

Helicon Ape is in the limelight again. This time it’s boasting two new increadibly important and useful modules – mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache extending it’s caching capabilities to the next level.

These modules allow to cache dynamically generated content on the hard disk or in RAM respectively.
The article covering all aspects of new caching modules is coming soon.

We are really grateful to our clients who help us discover unobvious bugs which we attempt to fix in the shortest terms possible.

P.S. The next module to be introduced is mod_linkfreeze implementing LinkFreeze features for Windows Server 2008 bypassing ISAPI limitations.

Stay with us!

HeliconTech Team.

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Prevent DoS attacks with Helicon Ape mod_evasive module

Hello, folks!Security is an important subject and we are trying to include some protection features into our software. Perhaps you have already heardabout HotlinkBlocker and its reincarnation in Helicon Ape — mod_hotlink module.Cool stuff, but we want to give you more. Helicon Ape 1.2.0.20 brings us mod_evasive, the module destined to protect your web-server from DoS and brute-force attacks. Sounds vague, so we’ll provide a little explanation.
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Helicon Ape 1.2.0.20 – 3 new modules and even more

We are here again to let you know of a new Helicon Ape build – 1.2.0.20.
This build is quite a big step forward compared to the previos one. So… what has changed:

  • 3 new modules added:
    • mod_mime destined to associate requested filename extensions with the file’s behavior (handlers and filters) and content (mime-type, language, character set and encoding);
    • mod_evasive is an efficient instrument to get rid of DoS/DDoS and brute force attacks;
    • mod_developer is a perfect HTTP-level tool for web developers providing a bunch of all-round information for the HTTP request.
  • and some improvements implemented:
    • enhanced algorithm for generation of web sites tree in Helicon Ape manager (does not cause delays even with hundreds of sites on your server);
    • sites list in Helicon Ape manager tree in now sorted alphabetically;
    • new core level directive – StopOnError – makes it possible to tell Helicon Ape how to process unknown directives: when it’s on, the browser will throw 500 error; when it’s off (default), unknown directives are ignored.
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New fixes, new features – new build (Helicon Ape 1.2.0.19)

HeliconTech team is ready to present a report regarding the latest build of Helicon Ape 1.2.0.19.
We are grateful to our customers who greatly assist us in bug-catching.

So, our achievements in 1.2.0.19 are:
– new functionality: possibility to register Helicon Ape for specific sites/applications in Helicon Manager;
– implementation of special environment variable (on_auth_create_user) used to create ASP.NET request context user after successful basic or digest authentication (this capability may be useful if you need to know the user that has authenticated via basic or digest authentication but you don’t use ASP.NET native authentication);
– case-insensitive map files processing (RewriteMap mapfile txt:mapfile.txt [NC]);
– fixed CacheStorePrivate directive processing;
– fixes for authz_groupfile_module and groups file processing.

We wish you successful testing of our freshest build and hope you’ll be satisfied with it.

Regards,
HeliconTech Team

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HeliconTech on Twitter

Dear customers,
We’ve opened an official twitter account: @helicontech. Please follow us to get some “fresh meat” news 🙂

Always yours,
HeliconTech Team

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ISAPI_Rewrite 3.1.0.63 already available

We’ve recently released a new build (63rd) of ISAPI_Rewrite 3 that can’t actually boast any significant changes or features, but has some really important fixes:

  • now ISAPI_Rewrite deals well with map files paths with spaces (e.g. C:\Program Files\…);
  • RewriteHeader directive is now correctly converted from v2 syntax using our syntax converting tool;
  • and some improvements in Unicode representation in the rewrite log were made.

That’s all for now:)

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mod_log_config capabilities

Hello!
We are always happy to offer you new features. Recently Helicon Ape has got mod_log_config – the module for logs tweaking.

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How to install Helicon Ape on shared hosting

Helicon Ape product offers a bunch of unique features to shAPE up your IIS7-based web server, and one of the most exciting things about it is that you don’t even need a dedicated server to install it! If your hosting provider supplies shared accounts with IIS7 support, you can install Helicon Ape on your web site without having to bother the server administrator.

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Using Helicon Ape under IIS6 (Windows Server 2003)

Hello everyone!
We are continuing to write about Helicon Ape tweaking and this article is about running our monkey on Windows 2003 Server. We’ve received a lot of responses from the users who haven’t managed to configure Ape under IIS6. So we hope this article will give enough information to get Ape working for you.
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Helicon Ape 1.1.0.15 – what risen minor gives

Hello!About two months ago our technology peacemaker, Helicon Ape, has been released. Dayafter day we are improving existing features and designing the new ones. Two buildshave already been released and now we are going to increase our product’s minorversion number because this monkey is gonna be really fancy 😉

So what new features has Ape obtained? Well, this post will shed some light on this issue.

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